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Historical Event on 9/18/1972
Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/6/1998 | Railways wins the BOB-Senior National Hockey championship for women defeating Haryana in the final at Chennai. |
8/15/1994 | Sukumar Gupta, a socialist, dies. |
7/11/1924 | Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi. |
7/31/1952 | Bela Mitra, commander of ""Nari Vahini"" and activist of ""Azad Hind Fauj"", passed away. She also worked as partition refugee. |
1/8/1884 | Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society. |
12/19/1860 | Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India (1848-1856), died. |
9/13/1990 | An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka. |
8/6/1920 | 'Shakuntala' made by Oriental Film Mfg. Co. was released. |
9/24/1932 | Poona Pact' was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. This historical agreement allowed increased representation for untouchables. Also, Gandhi ended his fast. |
3/8/1957 | Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, prominent leader in Maharashtra and former Chief Minister of Mumbai province, passed away. |
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